Education in its current form hasn't changed since its standardization in 1892. If you're anything like me, you'd like to shake some of that up a little bit. We've got to do something better/different/unique/special/well....innovative.

Coined by Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard University. Disruptive innovation in education is:

1. the catalyst for bringing about more equitable access to high-quality education.

2. is the mechanism for bringing about a personalized education system

3. a process to circumvent the political battles that have historically been at the center stage of education reform.

Come ready to learn, connect and disrupt while we study together, connect with experts and create a little disruption of our own.

Cohort Overview

September 5:30pm- How disruption is done in other sectors (Business, Healthcare, etc.) and what education can learn from them.
October - Disrupting Class - Key takeaways, disruptive roundtable
December - Activists and Activism - How productive disruption leads to change, Now what?, introduce a disruption project, Introduce the Mastermind Process, Create Momentum.

*Specific Dates to be determined as speakers/venues are finalized.

Benefits of Joining the cohort

• Meet other Disruptors in our region

• Learn about Disruptive Innovation in Education

• Have an online community to share resources, ideas, and connections

• Receive a copy of the book "Disrupting Class"

• Connect beyond the cohort on a "Disruption Project" of your own through a Mastermind Group structure

Many educators in the St. Louis area are working towards building a more student-driven learning space to learn. “Personalized Learning,” “Democratic Learning,” or “Innovation,” might be some of the ways you label what it is you are attempting to do. For many of us, this also means we can feel “alone” in this work. It’s time to flip the script and come together to support this work we are doing in our own school districts, buildings, and classrooms.

This evening will be about connecting with local educators who are working to disrupt the current educational landscape for the good of our learners. Our hope is together we can create a new understanding of what education could be using student choice and voice to drive our curriculum, incorporate standards, and improve teaching practices.

We will share struggles, problem-solve, and share what’s working!

See how Personalized Learning looks in Webster Groves

Description

Three schools are going to pitch their problem to the room. Using a consultancy protocol the room will pitch solutions to clarify and provide solutions. This upbeat, fun, engaging format relies on the expertise of a cross-section of our community. Not in education, you're perfect to help us solve problems! Join us!

What is a Consultancy Protocol?

The structure of the Consultancy helps presenters think more expansively about a particular, concrete dilemma. The Consultancy protocol has 2 main purposes – to develop participants’ capacity to see and describe the dilemmas that are the essential material of their work, and to help each other understand and deal with them. Learn more here.

Will you bring a problem?

Email Lorna Kurdi lkurdi@schoolsthatcan.org or Chris McGee chris@clstl.org

Every day we hear stories about America’s troubled education system. And we’re told that in order to fix what’s broken, we need to narrow our curricula, standardize our classrooms, and find new ways to measure students and teachers. But what if these “fixes” are making our schools worse.
In Beyond Measure, we set out to challenge the assumptions of our current education story.

Rather than ask why our students fail to measure up, this film asks us to reconsider the greater purpose of education. What if our education system valued personal growth over test scores? Put inquiry over mimicry? Encouraged passion over rankings? What if we decided that the higher aim of school was not the transmission of facts or formulas, but the transformation of every student? And what if this paradigm-shift was driven from the ground up? By students, parents, and educators? By all of us?

In Beyond Measure, we find a revolution brewing in public schools across the country. From rural Kentucky to New York City, schools that are breaking away from an outmoded, test-driven education are shaping a new vision for our classrooms. These are schools that see critical thinking, communication, exploration, experimentation, collaboration, and creativity as the key to good education. And they are dramatically improving outcomes for children of all backgrounds. They are schools where practically every student graduates and goes on to finish college.

Beyond Measure offers a positive picture of what’s possible in American education when communities decide they are ready for change. Are you?